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March 6, 2025
The former subsistence farmers of Blantyre have come a long way since the initial days of learning conservation-farming techniques that allowed them to grow food sustainably for home and market. […]
March 5, 2025
Villagers are proud of the fact that they successfully thwarted a caterpillar infestation using the organic or “bio” pesticides they’d learned to make. Especially since chemical pesticides had previously had […]
February 28, 2025
Monira and her large household are better off financially and finally getting some delicious, homegrown, organic vegetables in their diet. And all because Monira had the good fortune to meet […]
February 24, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic found Eulogio and his family living and working in a city and caused them to have to return to the country, where he grew up. The move […]
A remote community with very little in the way of infrastructure is now on its way to connecting to markets with training from local partner Occupation of Rural Economic Development […]
February 14, 2025
Daw Win Aye* is still growing rice and black gram beans … and, now, so much more. The program’s focus on supporting women farmers has made it possible for people […]
February 6, 2025
A divorced mother of four, Pitay is a go-getter who has supplemented her farm income for many years by selling hand-ground cornmeal. At 43, she admits pounding 25-30 pounds of […]
Growing cowpeas, a nitrogen-fixing legume, is helping Lyya achieve a few important goals: improve soil quality, bring in some income during the time of year when no other money is […]
February 3, 2025
Neelam joined a women’s farmer group with the encouragement of local partner SAHAS and has never looked back. Apart from occasional day labor on other people’s farms she had little […]
January 31, 2025
Oscar can face the uncertainties of changing weather patterns with a lot more confidence and calm now that he’s practicing numerous climate-smart strategies on his farm. A few years ago, […]
